F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
Travel, which had once charmed him, seemed, at length, unendurable, a business of color without substance, a phantom chase after his own dream's shadow.
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Regardless of what the record is, what the score is, you always go out there and compete.
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I drink a fair amount of ramen noodles.
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Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.
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Lester is the Rock of Gibraltar. Nothing can rattle him. I am not. I was always flying off the handle about things. And the one person who could calm me down and make me realize that none of this silliness mattered was Lester Holt.
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If there's a will, prosperity can't be far behind.
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It is always good to explore the stuff you don't agree with, to try and understand a different lifestyle or foreign worldview. I like to be challenged in that way, and always end up learning something I didn't know.
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America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
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My first paying job, when I was 15, I was a day camp counselor.
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People look up to Jacques Mesrine as if he were a Robin Hood, stealing from the rich, but he never gave anything back to anybody.
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I know that there's people that have expectations of me, and I'm a people pleaser, so I want them to be happy.
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There's no way I'm going to stand up for bad ingredients. We love seasonal ingredients. It's a false dichotomy to say that modern cooking is at odds with that, but some people want to have a great ingredient and no technique.
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What naturally you want to do if you were a prominent person in the public light and you are disgraced, you want to make a comeback, and normally that begins with somebody saying, 'I want to do something to help people. I want to do something to help the lepers in the Third World. I want to do something to help abandoned wives in India.'
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With women, there's a basic female instinct of caring deeply about the way they look; women stars have a narcissist complex.
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The world is full of opportunities - every day there's something new that you can do. For example, you could make dirty water potable. Why does anyone not have potable water? Because it's a problem that hasn't been solved yet, but it can be.
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My parents don't have any showbusiness links. They are so far away from it.
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I have never savored life with such gusto as I do now.
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No egoism is so insufferable as that of the Christian with regard to his soul.
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It's a great gig, really: getting on stage, playing the guitar, singing. For a living, it's super.
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Chicago is unique. It is the only completely corrupt city in America.
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When you can have anything you want by uttering a few words, the goal matters not, only the journey to it.
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When I hear Obama speak he just seems really sincere and he just seems like somebody who actually has his heart and his motivation in the right place. Forget about color or race or gender or whatever, he's got his heart in the right place.
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Accepting the reality of our sinfulness means accepting our authentic self. Judas could not face his shadow; Peter could. The latter befriended the impostor within; the former raged against him.
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Travel, which had once charmed him, seemed, at length, unendurable, a business of color without substance, a phantom chase after his own dream's shadow.
